budget definition

English budget definition

Etymology

Recorded since 1432 as Middle English bogett, bouget, bowgette (“leather pouch”), borrowed from Old French bougette, the diminutive of bouge (“leather bag, wallet”) (also the root of bulge), itself from Late Latin bulga (“leather bag, bellow”), which derives from Gaulish *bolgā (compare Old Irish bolg (“bag”), Breton bolc’h (“flax pod”)), a common root with the Germanic family (compare Dutch balg (“bellows”)), from the Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-. More at belly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ɪt/

  • Audio (US)

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• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌd͡ʒ.ət/
• Rhymes: -ʌdʒɪt

Noun

budget (plural budgets)

1. The amount of money or resources earmarked for a particular institution, activity or timeframe.

   limited budget

   unlimited budget

   tight budget/tight budget

   within the budget

   over the budget

   • 1999, Des Lyver, Graham Swainson, Basics of Video Lighting, page 103:

     At the other extreme, with limitless budgets all they have to do is dream up amazing lighting rigs to be constructed and operated by the huge team of gaffers and sparks, with their generators, discharge lights, flags, gobos and brutes.

   • 2008, David Mutimer, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2002, page 220:

     The latest Tory budget continued the trend begun in 2000 by making further small cuts in family income taxes.

   • 2009, Andrew Paquette, Computer Graphics for Artists II: Environments and Characters:

     The most common poly budget in use for games at the time of this writing is between 5,000 and 10,000 tris.

   1. (by implication) A relatively small amount of available money.

      We're on a budget, so we can't afford to eat at that restaurant.

2. An itemized summary of intended expenditure; usually coupled with expected revenue.
3. (obsolete) A wallet, purse or bag.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     With that out of his bouget forth he drew / Great store of treasure, therewith him to tempt […]

   • 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 364:

     The king holds up a hand to the lute player: ‘Thank you, leave us.’ The boy stuffs his music back into his budget and goes out backwards.

4. (obsolete) A compact collection of things.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     I set off, therefore, in high spirits, for I felt that I had done good work and was bringing back a fine budget of news for my companions.

5. (obsolete, military) A socket in which the end of a cavalry carbine rests.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Cantonese: budget
• → French: budget
  • → Armenian: բյուջե (byuǰe), պյուտճե (pyutče)
  • → German: Budget
  • → Ottoman Turkish: بودجه‎ (büdce)
    • Turkish: bütçe
    • → Azerbaijani: büdcə
  • → Russian: бюдже́т (bjudžét)
• → Italian: budget
• → Swahili: bajeti

Translations

Adjective

budget (not comparable)

1. Appropriate to a restricted budget.

   We flew on a budget airline.

   • 1991 December, “The YS Official Top 100 Part 3”, in Your Sinclair, number 72:

     A classic budget game, there isn't really anything outstanding about Rescue at all.

Synonyms

• (appropriate to a restricted budget): low-cost

Derived terms

• budget airline

Translations

Verb

budget (third-person singular simple present budgets, present participle budgeting, simple past and past participle budgeted)

1. (intransitive) To construct or draw up a budget.

   Budgeting is even harder in times of recession

2. (transitive) To provide funds, allow for in a budget.

   The PM’s pet projects are budgeted rather generously

3. (transitive) To plan for the use of in a budget.

   The prestigious building project is budgeted in great detail, from warf facilities to the protocollary opening.

Translations

Chinese budget definition

Alternative forms

• 筆直／笔直 (bǐzhí)

Etymology

From English budget.

Pronunciation

Noun

budget

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) budget (allocated resources or money) (Classifier: 個／个)
2. (Hong Kong Cantonese) budget (itemized summary or list of intended expenditure) (Classifier: 份)

See also

• bud

Czech budget definition

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbadʒɛt]
• IPA^(key): [ˈbadʒɪt]

Noun

budget m inan

1. Alternative spelling of budžet (“budget”)

   Synonym: rozpočet

Declension

Further reading

• budget in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• budget in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• budget in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish budget definition

Etymology

Borrowed from French budget, from English budget.

Noun

budget n (singular definite budgetet, plural indefinite budgeter)

1. budget

Dutch budget definition

Etymology

Borrowed from English budget.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʏˈdʒɛt/, /bʏtˈʃɛt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bud‧get
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

budget n (plural budgetten or budgets, diminutive budgetje n)

1. a budget

Synonyms

• begroting

Related terms

• budgetair
• budgetbewaking
• budgetneutraal
• budgetrecht
• budgetteren

Descendants

• → Indonesian: bujet

Further reading

• “budget” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

French budget definition

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English budget, from Old French bougette. Doublet of bougette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /by.dʒɛ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

budget m (plural budgets)

1. a budget

Related terms

• budgétaire
• budgétivore m & m or f

Descendants

• → Armenian: բյուջե (byuǰe), պյուտճե (pyutče)
• → German: Budget
• → Ottoman Turkish: بودجه‎ (büdce)
  • Turkish: bütçe
  • → Azerbaijani: büdcə
• → Russian: бюдже́т (bjudžét)

Further reading

• “budget”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian budget definition

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English budget.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbad.d͡ʒet/^[1]
• Rhymes: -addʒet
• Hyphenation: bùd‧get

Noun

budget m (invariable)

1. a budget

Related terms

• budgetario

References

Romanian budget definition

Noun

budget n (plural budgete)

1. Alternative form of buget

Declension

Swedish budget definition

Etymology

Borrowed from English budget.

Noun

budget c

1. a budget (a plan for economic spending)

Usage notes

• When used as a prefix, can also mean cheap.

Declension

Declension of budget
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	budget	budgeten	budgetar	budgetarna
Genitive	budgets	budgetens	budgetars	budgetarnas

Declension of budget
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	budget	budgeten	budgeter	budgeterna
Genitive	budgets	budgetens	budgeters	budgeternas

Derived terms

References

• budget in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• budget in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)